Observations from Fairport’s Cropredy Convention Day One

A £1.99 solid fuel cooker is an okay substitute for the Camping Gas one I left at home. Doh! Bar lack of heat control, black pan bottoms and it takes 3 tablets to boil a cuppa and make some pasta. You can see when it’s going to run out though.

Why would you pitch your tent next to the water taps?

Why would you pitch your tent one metre away from six uncontrollable water taps?

Next tent’s lilos with built in pumps require an electric pump to inflate them! Not me I’m on solid foam.

If you go for a shower take your towel. (That was me.)

Pitching your tent in a trailer

Pitching your tent inside a lorry is permitted. I wonder if they pulled the curtains?

Queuing for T-Shirts beats the queue for the bar!

The queue for T shirts is way longer than the one for the bar. A phenomenon that will reverse later.

Why do some value being found more than obscuring everyone’s view. Ban flags at festivals. And top hats.

The queues are in balance now

The queues are getting in balance. Which is amazing really when you see so many people dragging their own fridge and barrels of beer on to the site.

The waft from 80 chemical toilets, reminds me of a song “Pass on by”

If the generator is smoking like a garden bonfire, the music keeps on playing.

Are e-cigs acceptable smoking material at festivals?

Always start a festival with a big band

A large band of folk musicians with a long name “Joe Broughtons Conservatoire Folk Ensemble”